At the Palais des Beaux-Arts in the northern French city of Lille to see its permanent collection. It is one of the largest art museums in France and has an excellent collection of paintings and sculpture from antiquity to modern art.

Dirk Bouts ‘The Ascension of the Elect’ (c.1450)

Dirk Bouts ‘The Fall of the Damned’ (c.1450)

Francisco Goya ‘Time of the Old Women’ (c.1808 – 12)

Gustave Courbet ‘After Dinner at Ornans’ (1849)

Edouard Manet ‘Berthe Morisot with a Fan’ (1874)

Fernand Leger ‘Two Women with a Blue Vase’ (1935)